It was 6:30PM on the 25th of march, the air was cold and the night was dark. The air was quiet despite the thousands of people packed into the arena, as a hush came over the crowd a beam of light appeared in the distance, it’s what we were all waiting for. Panic! At the Disco had finally come on stage and the whole arena roared with screams of excitement, love and pure happiness as they started to play. This was going to be a night to remember, and we all knew it.
There was me and my girlfriend Rhiannon who went that night and we both agreed it was the greatest night of our life. As the band started playing silver lining, I could tell that the cost of the tickets are already worth every penny. As Brendan Uri and the rest of the band was rocking out, everyone single person in that crowd rocked out ten times hard to show them our dedication and love to their perfect sound. I went to the bar towards the end of their third song, while speaking to the bartender I asked him “do you ever get tired of hearing the same songs and bands three nights in a row?” and Sean, which was his name, looks me straight in the eye and says “I’ve listened to these songs about eight times this week and they get better every time.”At that point I realised he was the lucky one, he got to hear one of the best bands on the planet three times and he’s getting paid for it, that’s definitely a great job he’s got there.
After two hours of Panic! At the Disco playing without a break and continued to play with all their heart and soul while the entire arena was eye wide with jaw dropping fascination that they can go all this time with no breaks, they are out of this world. The atmosphere had not lowered at all, it kept increasing with every word and note that was blasted out of the speakers. Everyone in that concert was thinking the exact same thing: please don’t let this end! The adrenaline was surging through my body, every beat that shook the floor was like an electric to the heart that fuelled the energy surging through my brain, heart and body and every word was a trance that kept me hypnotised on everything they did. That was one trance I never wanted to break and even though we all thought it, none of us could have predicted what came next.
Panic! At the Disco had just finished playing Emperor’s New Clothes they did something they hadn’t done throughout the full four hours, they stopped playing. Brendan Uri wipes his face with a towel, picks up his microphone and says “thank you for being a great audience, good night!” Even though we all understood that he was playing all night, we couldn’t let him go just yet, we needed more and we had to let him know. We all knew what we had to do and we had to act fast. As Brendan and the others started to head towards the exit the whole audience exploded with cheers and people including me and Rhiannon calling for encores, practically begging for more of his music. These roars continued for five minutes with the crowd getting louder and louder every second they weren’t on stage, then when we thought that all hope was lost we saw him emerging from the darkness into the light. There was an uproar of cheers as Brendan silences the crowd, he approaches the microphone stand as we all hang on to hear what he’s going to say or sing.
A moment of silence and hush expands of the audience, you could hear the drop of a pin or the pouring of a drink as we all eagerly await for the encore of a life time. What seems like hours pass, then all of a sudden the speakers erupt with the sound we had all been waiting for, the starting beat of a three song encore. A night that was meant to only last three hours went on to almost five and just like the rest of the fans I was not complaining.
As we all started flooding out the doors you could hear everyone talking about it and already reminiscing about the time they saw Panic! At the Disco. “Greatest night of my life”, “I’m already excited for their next tour” and “I can’t believe how close I was to him” were just some of the phrase you would hear after that concert, I remember hearing one person saying “I didn’t think I’d like it but this has changed my thought 100%” I can already say with confidence that I will be at his next concert and if it’s anything like this one then I would happily pay a lot more for what was the greatest experience of my life.